The effectiveness of ‘Operation Vanguard’ against illegal mining: survival of security personnel

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported that the Chinese nationals use sophisticated machines, including excavators, bulldozers and explosives, among others, to engage in illegal mining. Most of their activities are normally done alongside water bodies and deep into the forest. Mercury, a poisonous chemical, is used to recover the gold from the ore, and in the process some spillages occur resulting in drainage of mercury in the water bodies. The most common and dangerous machines they use in the water bodies to wash the gold causing so much havoc and destruction to the rivers is popularly known as ‘changfa’.
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